Revista Educación Superior y Sociedad (ESS)

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From March 15th to 17th, 2018, the Oscar Maggiolo Hall of the Universidad de la República (University of the Republic), in Montevideo, Uruguay, held the Encuentro Preparatorio Regional (EPR) (Regional Preparatory Meeting) for the Seventh Thematic Axis of the III Conferencia Regional de Educación Superior (CRES 2018) (III Regional Conference on Higher Education) (CRES 2018), with the title of A Cien años de la Reforma Universitaria de Córdoba. Hacia un Nuevo Manifiesto de la Educación Universitaria Latinoamericana (A Hundred Years...

On June 2017, the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish abbreviation UNESCO-IESALC), in conjunction with the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Spanish abbreviation UNC), the National Inter-university Council of Argentina (Spanish abbreviation CIN) and the Secretariat for University Policies at the Ministry of Education and Sports of Argentina (Spanish abbreviation SPU) informed the entire educational community of the region about the preparation of the III Regional Conference on Higher Education (CRES 2018) to be...

On Tuesday, March 6th, 2018, representatives of Venezuelan universities attended the presentation of the III Regional Conference on Higher Education (abbreviated in Spanish as CRES 2018), convened by the Instituto Internacional de la UNESCO para la Educación Superior de América Latina y el Caribe (UNESCO-IESALC) (International UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean) .
The director of UNESCO-IESALC, Pedro Henríquez Guajardo, explained the conceptual bases of CRES 2018 to those present, and took the opportunity invited the...

The main goals of the III Regional Conference on Higher Education (CRES 2018) are to contribute with the consolidation of the region’s higher education systems and to generate spaces for research and innovation for human development, democratic coexistence and citizenship, based on the principles of tolerance, solidarity and social commitment. One of the CRES 2018 thematic axes, The Strategic Role of Higher Education in the Sustainable Development of Latin America and the Caribbean, held its Encuentro Preparatorio Regional (EPR) (Regional...

Activities overview
The CRES advances in its logistical organization with the opening of the online registration since February 15th, 2018, available through its official site www.cres2018.org. The people interested in participating in the CRES 2018 can register at no cost by filling out the online application form. In February 2018, the dissemination of the III CRES reached Cuba and Colombia. The Congreso Universidad 2018 (University 2018 Congress) devoted a space of its programming...

Noticias

The new Assistant Director-General for Education, Ms. Stefania Giannini, attended an information session on 22 May 2018 organized by the Higher Education Section about the future Global Convention on Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications addressed mainly for UNESCO Permanent Delegations.
Former Minister of Education of Italy, Ms. Giannini assumed her...

In the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, held each year on November 25th, the nonprofit organization Asociación Civil Mujer y Ciudadanía, and the Center for Studies on Citizen Participation of the Monteavila University in Caracas, Venezuela, will award the Rector of the University...

The XVII International University Management Colloquium (CIGU): University, Development and Future in the Knowledge Society, will take place from November 22nd to 24th in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This event has been held since 2000 thanks to a collaboration agreement between the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)(Brazil) through its...

Paris, 13 November–The L'Oréal Foundation and UNESCO have selected five outstanding women scientists from Argentina, Canada, China, South Africa, and the United Kingdom who will receive the 2018 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards in life sciences on 22 March 2018 in Paris.
The L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards recognizes...